Most frequently challenged books

January 8, 2002

Last month, Harry Potter protesters in Alamogordo, N.M., burned piles of the books to show their disapproval, while middle schools in Grafton, Mass., banned Melba Pattillo Beals's 1994 book "Warriors Don't Cry" after a parent objected to a passage that describes a sexual assault. The following are the most frequently challenged books in 2000, according to the latest American Library Association list: